> > The raid(4) codebase is old, unmaintained, and known to have issues. > > > > That's one of the reasons it's not in the stock kernel. > > Oh I thought the OpenBSD team was silently discouraging people from the > practice of using software RAID. >:}
No. We just wish we had newer and better code. We don't like the way the current code works. > That sounds like the service of a friend. > > Focusing efforts on better universal hardware RAID mgmnt interface > support. It's even better as of a few days ago: hw.sensors.40=sd0, ami0 0, drive online, OK hw.sensors.41=sd1, ami0 1, drive online, OK If either volume on this AMI controller go into various failures, I will get hw.sensors values that change, so that sensorsd can alert me. Ie. if it starts a rebuild due to a disk in the volume failing.......
